Intel PRO-Wireless Drivers for Microsoft Windows Vista sp41263

Hello and yes,

I am fairly familiar with the netwlv64 failure & BSOD when using WINDOWS 10 on an early (ie VISTA style) laptop that was built with an INTEL WiFi 4965AGN card. (Such old computers are technically NOT CERTIFIED nor COMPLIANT for WIN10.) The BSOD occurred randomly on both my TOSHIBA A305 and my DELL D630. And YES I have found a solution that works for both of my machines. I simply worked backwards through the existing driver versions for that 4956AGN card until I found a driver that just happened to work! While INTEL has failed to create a WIN10 compliant driver for the 4965AGN, they did create a series of upgraded drivers, the latest being v.15 - I believe. I worked backwards and found that version 12.1.0.14 dated 8/28/08 eliminates the BSOD on both of my machines, and I believe it will help your HP too. Both my machines run in 64bit mode. I actually downloaded that driver from the Lenovo web site. Search for that version number, or search on Lenovo for "ds011536". Good Luck :slightly_smiling_face:

Now a warning: Every time Microsoft issues a new version (major upgrade) of WIN10, you will need to reinstall the older driver because a part of the upgrade (say from v.1709 to v.1803 of WIN10) seems to be the reinstall of current drivers. So SAVE THAT OLD DRIVER when you download and install it. You WILL need it again.

Another suggestion: Turn OFF the "Power Management" setting for 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' that can be found under Properties for the 4965AGN card. That will help with the connection issues, but it did not improve or lessen the random BSOD condition for either of my machines.


I have precise notes, so if you need more details I will be able to provide same. For anyone with an HP, this should solve what they call the 'whitelist' problem that prevents hardware upgrades by locking the boot time BIOS to specific HP hardware. You won't need to change the hardware !!! ~Ken

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